The Top 50 Liberal Arts Colleges At a Glance
We updated and ranked this list of the top 50 values in liberal arts colleges for 2009 (how we scored the schools). Clicking on the college names below will show you all of the ranking data. Or, see our top 50 values in private universities. Most of our data come from Petersons, a Nelnet company.
1 - Pomona College, Claremont, Cal.
2 - Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
3 - Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
4 - Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.
5 - Washington & Lee Univ., Lexington, Va.
6 - Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
7 - Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
8 - Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
9 - Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.
10 - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
11 - Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
12 - Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Cal.
13 - College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
14 - Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
15 - Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
16 - Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
17 - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
18 - Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
19 - Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo.
20 - Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.
21 - Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y.
22 - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
23 - Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
24 - Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.
25 - Barnard College, New York, N.Y.
26 - Colby College, Waterville, Maine
27 - Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.
28 - Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
29 - Centre College, Danville, Ky.
30 - Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
31 - Denison University, Granville, Ohio
32 - Occidental College, Los Angeles, Cal.
33 - Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, Cal.
34 - Illinois Wesleyan Univ., Bloomington, Ill.
35 - Scripps College, Claremont, Cal.
36 - Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
37 - St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
38 - DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
39 - Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
40 - Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
41 - Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa.
42 - Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.
43 - Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.
44 - Reed College, Portland, Ore.
45 - Furman University, Greenville, S.C.
46 - Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
47 - Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa.
48 - Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich.
49 - Sewanee: Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
50 - Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.
